A group representing Chrysler dealers said Monday that it is in talks with the automaker in hopes of getting it to scale back plans to terminate the franchise agreements of about a quarter of its dealers.

Colleen Howe, successful businesswoman and wife of hockey great Gordie Howe, has died. She was 76. The Red Wings say Colleen Howe died Friday at her home in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills after battling Pick's disease, a rare and incurable form of progressive dementia similar to Alzheimer's disease.